Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, author of Winning the Future, has been making news lately by making recent book tour stops in Iowa and New Hampshire - states pivotal in the early race for the GOP nomination for president.
Much speculation has been made about his political ambitions, mainly: is he running for president?
Mr. Gingrich agreed to answer a few questions from Human Events Online.
HEO: You recently traveled to New Hampshire as part of your book tour and now you're in IOWA. What's the purpose of your trip to Iowa?
GINGRICH: We badly need a few years of focusing on big solutions to meet the big challenges we face. My book, Winning the Future, is an outline of a 21st Century Contract with America that would transform health, balance the federal budget, create a much simpler flatter tax that would save every taxpayer time and money, among a variety of other key changes.
HEO: Why is Iowa significant?
GINGRICH: Iowa is a key state in shaping the ideas and the solutions for 2008. Talking about big solutions and big ideas in Iowa has a big impact on every reporter and every candidate who wants to campaign here.
HEO: There has been a great deal of speculation that you are preparing for a 2008 run. Do you want to be President?
GINGRICH: I want to help my two grandchildren, Maggie, 5, and Robert, 3, have a country as safe, as prosperous and as healthy as the country my parents and grandparents worked and fought to be able to give me. I will do anything I can THAT IS HELPFUL IN THAT CAUSE.
HEO: Time magazine recently listed you among their 25 Most Fascinating People. Why do you think so many people are still intrigued?
GINGRICH: I think the idea of someone who likes to learn and likes to develop new solutions and likes to teach is so rare in politics (think of the late Senator Moynihan as a great example) that reporters are curious as to what you will do next and what you will work on next. I was humbled to be listed six years after leaving the Speakership.
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